NASA touts space research in anti-cancer fight

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Washington, United States—Experiments in the weightless environment of space have led to “crazy progress” in the fight against cancer, NASA officials said at a recent event highlighting an important and personal initiative of US President Joe Biden.The 48-year-old, a physician and former military helicopter pilot, conducted cancer research during his recent mission to the International Space Station , orbiting some 400 kilometers above the Earth’s surface.

Pharmaceutical giant Merck has conducted research on the ISS with Keytruda, an anti-cancer drug that patients now receive intravenously. Nelson used two pictures to demonstrate the difference. The first showed a blurry, transparent spot. But on the second, a large number of clear gray spots had emerged.

Merck identified techniques that can help it imitate the effects of these crystals on Earth as it works to develop a drug that can be stored at room temperature. “We use the languages of space to tell the limits of cancer,” added W. Kimryn Rathmell, director of the National Cancer Institute, a federally funded research body.Biden launched a “Cancer Moonshot” initiative in 2016, when he was then vice president, echoing a speech by John F. Kennedy some 60 years earlier outlining the bold goal of sending an American to the moon.

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